1994, Durschang, Bernward R., Carl, Gunter, Rüssel, Christian, Marchetti, Kurt, Roeder, Erwin

Glass-ceramics with oriented crystals have been produced from a lithium disilicate glass system by extruding the nucleated glass below the crystallization temperature, and subsequent heat treatment to achieve high-crystalline glass-ceramics. The extruded glass was found to possess a small amount of ahgned, elongated lithium disilicate crystallites and anisotropic stresses. The resulting glassceramic shows a high orientation of the needle-shaped Li₂Si₂O₅ crystals with their c-axis parallel to the extrusion direction. The degree of crystallographic orientation was found to be decreased for samples with an additional heat treatment slightly above Tg, placed between the extrusion process and the crystallization. The crystal alignment of specimens extruded below crystallization temperature is significantly higher than the alignment o f extruded glass-ceramic.

1997, Habelitz, Stefan, Carl, Gunter, Rüssel, Christian, Marchetti, Kurt, Roeder, Erwin, Eifler, Dieter, Hergt, Rudolph

Glass-ceramics with oriented mica crystals have been produced by extruding a fluorophlogopite glass and subsequent therma treatment. During extrusion predominantly the intermediate phase norbergite (Mg₃F₂SiO₄) and besides small quantities of phlogo pite mica crystals (Na/KMg₃F₂Si₃AlO₁₀) crystallized. Heat treatments at temperatures around the maximum crystallization rat resulted in an oriented crystallization of phlogopite as proved by electron microscopy and XRD analysis. The plate-like crystals ar aligned with their basal planes parallel to the direction of extrusion. The degree of orientation was studied by X-ray pole figur measurements. The (003) planes show strong ring-fibre texture. The degree of orientation decreased if the crystallization was realize at lower temperatures and lower crystallization rates. The alignment mechanism is discussed.

1999, Yue, Yuanzheng, Carl, Gunter, Rüssel, Christian

An extrusion method to determine viscosities is described. Here, different stages of the response on the load applied are observed and the viscous heating efFect caused by the mechanical deformation work is taken into account. The method enables the determination of viscosities in the ränge of 10⁶ to 10^(8.5) dPa s. The values obtained are in good agreement with interpolated ones determined by beam bending and cylinder rotation. During extruding of calcium metaphosphate melts, the viscositiy decreases with increasing shear rate. This shear-thinning efFect (or non-Newtonian behaviour) is attributed to the orientation of flow units of the dynamic melt network. It is found that both Newtonian and non-Newtonian flow behaviour of calcium metaphosphate melts was largely influenced by adding a small amount of SiO₂. However, the introduction of a small amount of SiO₂ into calcium metaphosphate melts is beneficial to study the flow behaviour, since by that the crystallization of melts is avoided, which hinders the continuation of extruding processes.

1998, Arbuz, Valerii I., Carl, Gunter, Rüssel, Christian, Durschang, Bernhard

Samples of extruded and non-extruded lithium disilicate glasses were studied. Extruded glass samples were cut out along and across the extrusion axis of fmished cylindrical rods. For all the samples, spectra of radiation-induced absorption, Δα(E), were measured for various time instants after the cessation of X-irradiation. On the data basis obtained, kinetic dependences. Δα = f(t), were plotted and analyzed. In the diagram "Δα versus lgt", they are represented by straight hnes. Each of them is falling down with its own constant slope a. These a's are rate parameters of the decay of radiation color centers (CCs). They appear to be functions of average distances between recombinating electron and hole CCs. The above α-parameter decreases when passing from the longitudinal cut extruded glass sample to the sample of the non-extruded glass and finally to the transversely cut extruded glass sample. These data mean that, in the course of extrusion, the glass structure becomes less dense in the axial direction of extruded glass rods and more dense in the radial one. Α 4-hour heat treatment at 465 °C (≈5°C above the glass transformation temperature, Tg) eliminated the above anisotropy of radiation properties in extruded glasses and forced their anisometric structures to return to the isometric State characteristic of the non-extruded glass.